New dog pastel

I have not been able to hold a pastel long enough to do a portrait for a few weeks now. But yesterday and today I managed a short time when it was possible. It helps to find something that I am able to manage as reading, writing, thought and memory are lost too. 

 I have to work quick. My already numb hands, with swollen knuckles, allow little fine control. Luckily only the white pencil outline requires accuracy and of course the beautiful eyes which are, in my view, key to a good or bad picture. I hope I got these right.

This is sweet young puppy Alfie, still in Romania, needing a home and to be lived and safe forever.